Mamdani fuzzy inference systems and artificial neural networks for landslide susceptibility mapping

Luísa Vieira Lucchese (), Guilherme Garcia Oliveira and Olavo Correa Pedrollo
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Luísa Vieira Lucchese: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Guilherme Garcia Oliveira: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Olavo Correa Pedrollo: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2021, vol. 106, issue 3, No 28, 2405 pages

Abstract: Abstract Two Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods, Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN), are applied to Landslide Susceptibility Mapping (LSM), to compare complementary aspects of the potentials of the two methods and to extract physical relationships from data. An index is proposed in order to rank and filter the FIS rules, selecting a certain number of readable rules for further interpretation of the physical relationships among variables. The area of study is Rolante river basin, southern Brazil. Eleven attributes are generated from a Digital Elevation Model (DEM), and landslide scars from an extreme rainfall event are used. Average accuracy and area under Receiver Operating Characteristic curve (AUC) resulted, respectively, in 81.27% and 0.8886 for FIS, and 89.45% and 0.9409 for ANN. ANN provides a map with more amplitude of outputs and less area classified as high susceptibility. Among the 40 (10%) best-ranked FIS rules, 13 have high susceptibility output, while 27 have low; a cause is that low susceptibility areas are larger on the map. Slope is highly connected to susceptibility. Elevation, when high (plateau) or low (floodplain), inhibits high susceptibility. Six attributes show the same fuzzy set for the 18 best-ranked rules, meaning this fuzzy set is common on the map. Overall findings point out that ANN is best suited for LSM map generation, but, based on them, using FIS is important to help researchers understand more about AI models for LSM and about landslide phenomenon.

Keywords: Rule set; Mass movement; Natural disasters; Map analysis; Map validation; Fuzzy rule interpretation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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